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... beginning with the former , handled abstractedly , and descending to the latter . But , though criticism is thus his only declared aim , he will not disown , that all along it has been his view , to explain the Nature of Man ...
... beginning with the former , handled abstractedly , and descending to the latter . But , though criticism is thus his only declared aim , he will not disown , that all along it has been his view , to explain the Nature of Man ...
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... Beginning with the former , an agreeable object makes every thing connected with it appear agreeable ; for the mind gliding sweetly and easily through related objects , carries along the agreeable properties it meets with in its passage ...
... Beginning with the former , an agreeable object makes every thing connected with it appear agreeable ; for the mind gliding sweetly and easily through related objects , carries along the agreeable properties it meets with in its passage ...
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... beginning ; and the new passion swells by degrees , till it rivals in some measure self - love , the primary passion . To demonstrate the truth of this theory , I urge the following argument . Remorse for betraying a friend , or ...
... beginning ; and the new passion swells by degrees , till it rivals in some measure self - love , the primary passion . To demonstrate the truth of this theory , I urge the following argument . Remorse for betraying a friend , or ...
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... beginning at the latter , and passing from it to the former . This vibration of the mind in passing and repassing between things related , explains the facts above mentioned : the mind passeth easily from the father to the daughter ...
... beginning at the latter , and passing from it to the former . This vibration of the mind in passing and repassing between things related , explains the facts above mentioned : the mind passeth easily from the father to the daughter ...
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... Beginning with internal effects , I discover two , clearly dis- tinguishable from each other , both of them produced by pleasant emotions that are similar ; of which , the one may be represented by addition in numbers , the other by ...
... Beginning with internal effects , I discover two , clearly dis- tinguishable from each other , both of them produced by pleasant emotions that are similar ; of which , the one may be represented by addition in numbers , the other by ...
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Page 59 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Page 261 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules : within a month ? Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 413 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 411 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 345 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean...
Page 33 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 411 - I thought, that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment : But whate'er you are> That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time...
Page 154 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 302 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 461 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...